Executive compensation

Junichiro Hironaka, lawyer of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Hironaka said his client cannot get a fair trial under the same judge as the Japanese automaker, which is a co-defendant in a pending financial misconduct case, arguing Nissan has been acting “as one” with the prosecutors.((AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

PARIS (AP) — French carmaker Renault SA's board will hold a special meeting to discuss recent results of its internal investigation of its former boss Carlos Ghosn, amid reports of suspicious payments under his watch. The board meeting planned for Wednesday will also look into Ghosn's 2018 pay as...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Major League Baseball has suspended San Francisco Giants President and CEO Larry Baer without pay until July 1 after a video showed him in a physical altercation with his wife. Commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday that Baer's conduct on the video was "unacceptable" and...

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, the logo for Goldman Sachs appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Goldman Sachs Group's board is taking steps to slash its top executives' 2018 compensation, depending upon the outcome of investigations into the investment bank's role in the ransacking of a multibillion-dollar Malaysian state investment fund. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Goldman Sachs Group's board is taking steps to slash its top executives' 2018 compensation, depending on the outcome of investigations into the investment bank's role in the ransacking of a multibillion-dollar Malaysian state investment fund. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission...

PARIS (AP) — Renault ethics officials have concluded that financial compensation to members of the French automaker's executive committee in 2017 and 2018 was fraud-free. The review was initiated after Renault chief Carlos Ghosn was fired as head of Japan's Nissan and jailed in Tokyo on fraud...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert is laying claim to the $120 million in severance that CBS' board of directors said wouldn't be paid to ousted former CEO Leslie Moonves — at least half of it. The late-night host joked, "the other half goes to Tom Selleck's mustache." Colbert didn't avoid his network...

In this May 12, 2016, photo, then Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn attends a joint press conference with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. in Yokohama, near Tokyo. At left is Nissan Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa, who became co-CEO with Ghosn in 2016 and then sole chief last year. The surprise arrest of Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn on charges of falsifying financial reports is providing a window into possible corporate intrigue at the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

PARIS (AP) — Renault says an internal investigation has found no wrongdoing in the awarding of compensation to CEO Carlos Ghosn, who has been indicted in Japan on charges of falsifying financial reports. Following a board meeting, the French carmaker said in a statement Thursday that the...

FILE - In this May 24, 2015, file photo, chairman and CEO of Renault-Nissan Carlos Ghosn, center, arrives prior to the start of the Formula One Grand Prix, at the Monaco racetrack. A trailblazer and visionary in the auto industry, Carlos Ghosn is also a highflyer prone to excesses that may have helped bring on his surprise downfall as head of the world’s best-selling auto group. Ghosn was arrested last week in Japan for allegedly falsifying financial reports and misusing funds at Nissan Motor Co. It was a stunning reversal for the industry icon. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

PARIS (AP) — A trailblazer and visionary in the auto industry, Carlos Ghosn is also a highflyer prone to excesses that may have helped bring on his surprise downfall as head of the world's best-selling auto group. Ghosn turned around France's Renault SA and then Japan's Nissan Motor Co., eventually...

FILE - In this Feb.16, 2018 file photo, French car maker Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn, right, and his new deputy Thierry Bollore pose for photographers after the presentation of the company 2017 at the headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris. Renault's board of directors says that Ghosn will remain as chairman and CEO of the carmaker even though he is detained in Japan for alleged misuse of Nissan assets. The board on Tuesday Nov.20, 2018, however, tapped the carmaker's No. 2, Thierry Bollore, to fill in for Ghosn while he's "temporarily incapacitated."(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

PARIS (AP) — Carlos Ghosn will remain chairman and CEO of Renault despite being detained in Japan on allegations he misused assets of partner Nissan Motor Co. and under-reported millions of dollars in income. The French carmaker's board of directors announced its decision after an emergency meeting...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California state Treasurer John Chiang on Wednesday called for an independent investigation amid questions about the educational background of the head of the nation's largest public pension system. California Public Employees' Retirement System CEO Marcie Frost is facing...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — SeaWorld and two former executives on Tuesday agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle federal fraud claims that they misled investors about the negative impact the 2013 documentary "Blackfish" had on business. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed the complaint...